Wish me Happy Anniversary! It's been one year TODAY!

Hello family and beLOVEd peoples and animals etc,

Chihng Yahn Jit Faai Lohk! (Sweetheart's Holiday Happiness!) Happy Valentines!

Valentines (Hong Kong China is REALLY GOOD at the junk part of Valentines actually--little paper/stickers/craft shops are EVERYWHERE).

We were pricked in our hearts in last week's weekly planning--OK, mostly because we had nothing planned for Wednesday night and wanted to do something fun and different and non-boring-- to make up and set up a
Valentine's activity.

So I already told you how we pulled off an almost genuine USA Laurels level activity--made frosting (blending the sugar into sorta powdered) and that it went really well? We made little rose/pencils (substituted green electric tape for green floral tape and I had to figure out how to ask for red cellophane at the shop and we used pencils instead of sticks which was actually infinitely cuter and more useful).

But then we had all these supplies left over, so we used the same supplies to do THREE other activities at an English teaching class last Saturday night. The poetry the kids wrote was HILARIOUS:

"Dear Friend;

The hand(s) and the feet.
You are.

My energy."

and another,

"Behind the moon
Under the sun
You are my brightest star"

and yet another,

"Hope you always have considerate friend at your side everytime."

Oh man, it really was inspired and the best idea ever. OH, and the favorite one was the one Sister C made just for me, which I will try to remember... It starts, "It's hard to explain how awesome you are/ You are more awesome than a Fender guitar" and ends... "I've used the word awesome four times, now five/Poe would slaughter me if he was alive/But he isn't, so I'll still give you this Valentines card/ and you'll always remember Gou Ji Muih, "The Bard"

... BEST THING EVER.

We repeated the activity at a make-Valentines-for-less-actives-and-build-relationship-with-new-ward-missionary
thing at Sister L's house Sunday night (which worked perfectly since a couple of appointments had just fallen through), and a SERIOUSLY LAST MINUTE AWESOME activity at the church Monday night that was
constructed entirely because our district leader was trying to get us in contact with a couple friends of a member student in HIS ward (Tin Shui Wai) and he knew they'd be in Yuen Long on Monday so he called us and we pulled everything back together from the other activities and did it AGAIN--and met two new friends (R and R) both from Yuen Long AND got back in contact with Y., that gal we met at the beach-bum activity from LAST Saturday... basically
activities are infinitely more effective AND more fun than tracting in missionary work. AND did I mention more fun...

We're focusing on the JOY and happiness of getting to have the Lord as our boss in our work! It's so wonderful and hopeful to just release and trust him. I've been working myself into a rut for a while, and I've been pulling back out of it and seeing dawn.

Bye for now, Sister Darcey